Michaela Benson
Författare till Lifestyle Migration (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)
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Michaela Benson is a research assistant at the University of Bristol. She previously held the Sociological Review fellowship (2008-9), and is the author of The British in Rural France (2011), and co-editor of the volume Lifestyle Migration (2009). Holland Munro is Emeritus Professor at Keele visa mer University and was previously Director of the Centre for Social Theory Technology, CSTT. He is internationally regarded for his path-breaking and interdisciplinary work on consumption, power and identity. visa färre
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One of the key themes that I saw consistently emerging had to do with the ways in which 'identity' and 'location' are narrated and given meaning in the stories of these migrants, in the sense that as 'artists of life', as suggested by Zygmunt Bauman, we're all continually engaged in the process of making meaning of our lives. They suggest this meaning-making is an ongoing process.
My favourite chapters talked about young Westerners in Varanasi, India; 'down-sized and down-shifting' Americans in rural Michigan; and English-speaking women who married Italian men in Florence, Italy.
But the book was consistently interesting, and thought-provoking throughout.… (mer)